Cate Blanchett Quotes

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

Cate Blanchett

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WorkRelationshipChildrenThinkYou

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious intricacies, to be what you were, what you are, what you will be, and what everyone else is or was or will be, too.

Andrew Solomon

ImaginationCuriousLuxuryYouNever

One thing we see a lot is this - the idea kids have now that they don't have to go to college. They don't have to get a real job. They feel they can become 'Internet famous' by taking selfies. They think they can become a star through social media. We see that a lot. You can succeed. But it takes time and persistence.

Max Joseph

TimePersistenceJobSocial Media

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

Maurice Sendak

YouKnowingMeanWithoutThings

It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

BrokenBookVeryThingVolumes

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Amartya Sen

ChoiceWelfareCollectiveLeftDelhi

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.

Spike Jonze

MeAliveWantPossibleSingleClear

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.

Robbie Williams

LightMyselfSleepThoughtsDownGo

The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea.

Robert Barany

NowHearingKnownSite

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Roger Moore

DeathNothingGlamorousAbout

Choose people who lift you up.

Michelle Obama

PeopleYouChooseLiftUpWho

I personally think the best ideas for TV shows - at least comedies - are very low-fi ideas. High concepts often sell pitches in movies and TV, but, especially in TV when you're talking about hopefully a 100 or 150 episode proposition, those concepts just burn off, and then you're stuck with nothing.

Michael Schur

BestIdeasThinkTalkingYouBurn

I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I make music that isn't for something I want to make, and it's to please other people, it's - the outcome is really bad.

Julia Holter

MusicSchoolPeopleWritingBad

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